Archive for the ‘Corruption’ Category
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Approximately a week ago, Piratpartiet were in EU Profile with our answers. See the EU Profiler Page on the Pirate Party, which details how we responded to EU Profiler's survey. Yamiko did the test on May 4th, and were were among the recommended party options.
Now, Aftonbladet launched its own version ...
Posted in Corruption, EU Elections | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
As reported in geek press everywhere, the administration bought out the few resisting legislators at the last minute, and the general wiretapping law was passed with a 143-to-138 vote.
What made me proud, though, was that the normally shy and inhibited Swedes had taken their clenched fists out of their pockets. ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 4 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
Thank you, Ireland.
From this day and as long as I can still walk, I will buy any Irishman I come across in my travels a pint of Guinness -- or a genuine Swedish schnapps, whichever they prefer.
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
In my last post, I said that the Swedish blogosphere has exploded about this story. I felt I had to qualify that a bit, so here's a screenshot from the Swedish blogosphere tracker knuff.se, which tracks practically all Swedish blogs.
The format of the screenshot is that one header is one ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
There is a lot of debate in Sweden right now. My exposing a very senior intelligence official this Saturday, who stated - on tape - that the Ubiquitous Wiretapping Bill legalized the agency's existing mission, caused the Swedish blogosphere to detonate like a barrel of overheated thermite. Print media, though, ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 20 Comments »
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
On my Swedish blog, I'm just running a pull-down-their-pants series on how the national security agencies have been violating the Swedish Constitution for several years, with the most damning evidence yet to be presented.
The context is the fact that a bill in the Swedish Parliament will mandate the national security ...
Posted in Civil Liberties, Corruption | 6 Comments »